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Creating Unattended install for HP fortify:

So I was recently tasked with creating a silent install for HP Fortify 3.40 to 3.50.

The initial plan was to create a response transform using the MSI extracted from the EXE package using Installshield Editor. Then create a batch file to first import the certificate that was created for the group of users in our domain who were allowed this software.

But that did not work out as I was unable to create a response transform using the fortify MSI. Whenever I tried I kept getting this error message.

"An error occurred while generating a Response Transform. Would you like to open a blank transform instead of a Response Transform?"

After some googling I figured the best way to get past this was adding the ISSETUP=1 property using the property manager installshield editor and save the MSI and then try. As it happens it didn’t work out too well, I was able to get past the error but none of the binaries actually worked after install.

I tried a different tack and was succesful by creating an answer file for the setup itself. I used

which recorded a setup.iss file in the location specified.

The setup.iss file could then be edited in notepad to specify the location of the license

So i was recently tasked with removing wireless restrictions from a VP's windows 7 laptop that some infrastructure company had placed while contracted with our network, since he needed to enable setting up of adhoc connections on his laptop and he always got

"The policies of your network prevent the creation of ad hoc (computer-to-computer) networks. For more information, contact your system administrator."

A little bit of probing revealed that adhoc and peer to peer connections were blocked as evidenced by the the command

netsh wlan show filter on an elevated command prompt revealed that adhoc network type was blocked by group policy:

I removed the restrictions by:

1: open services.msc as administrator, scroll down to WLAN AutoConfig:

Open gpedit.msc and browse to the location /Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Internet Communication Management/Internet Communication Settings and double click "turn off access to all windows update features" and set it to disabled.

We had a migration from Hosted Exchange to Office 365 and i was tasked with automating the local Outloook profile migration for Users:

I Created a GUI utility using powershell which would allow users to create an Office365 Profile and set it as default, I prepared PRF files for each version of office and an autodiscover.xml to be used for local autodiscover and uploaded them to a hosted site:

The PRF file to set settings for Office 365 are hard to find: i used the below entries: